the tone of a color. Mrs. Brown would urge the adoption 
of the Ridgway chart by the Garden Club of America, and 
demand its use by nursery-men in their descriptions of color in their 
catalogues; that Garden Clubs should own a copy for circulation 
among their members, and that educational work on color nomencla- 
ture should be disseminated by the Bulletin. 
Mrs. King agreed with the substance of the report. She would 
like to know if Chicago printers could do better with the colors. 
Miss Sargent thought the designation of color tones by numbers 
would be very desirable, as doing away with individual precon- 
ceived ideas. 
Mr. Clarke considered that in the present serious state of national 
affairs that it would be unwise to undertake any new and unnecessary 
project. Mrs. S. A. Brown 
Miss G. W. Sargent 
Mrs. Francis King 
Thomas Shields Clarke 
Report of 
Committee on Lecturers 
It would seem that the Lecture Committee of the Garden Club 
or America had been very inactive during this present incum- 
bency, for comparatively few inquiries for Lecturers have come to the 
Chairman. She has felt this lack of inquiry particularly, for just 
in the same ratio have letters come from the lecturers themselves, 
asking that they be given more publicity in order to secure engage- 
ments. As the Bureau is one for reference only, and not for adver- 
tisement or unsolicited recommendation, it would be as well to have 
this fact emphasized in the Bulletin at the beginning of another 
season, that a better understanding be maintained between the Com- 
mittee and the Lecturers. When one thinks of it, it is easy to ac- 
count for the falling off of requests for Lectures this year, for besides 
the help that the published list in the Bulletin last autumn gave the 
Garden Clubs, they themselves have come to an age of discretion and 
discrimination, and being familiar with the names and representa- 
tions of most of the lecturers upon garden subjects, they are able to 
secure them without the aid of the Bureau. The great activity in 
other channels also, produced by the war situation, has been a factor 
in making Garden Club work (that is, of the flower garden) of sec- 
ondary interest. 
